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...Elisha Lee, and a staff of high executives, he was halfway through his annual survey tour of North America. Routing his private car on a great swing down through the Southwest to Mexico City and up the Pacific Coast where he was last week, he had planned to swing homeward through Canada. Then came his country's call for counsel and advice, and almost simultaneously an advance copy of the report of the National Transportation Committee...
...with nostalgic appreciation, marvelling open-mouthed at Van Orman's description of his instruments that sound a buzzer and flash a red light when the altitude of his balloon begins to fluctuate. Lieut.-Commander Settle, a mathematically-minded engineer who inspects the construction of Navy dirigibles, described their homeward voyage on the Graf in precise, unimaginative terms. But Van Orman's gaunt face brightened, his eyes shone as he exclaimed: "Never have I had such a thrill as when I went aboard that ship! After being knocked about by thunderstorms in the most primitive craft that flies-then...
...started homeward last November. At one time they "had only one oogiuk [sea lion] skin for ourselves and the dogs for two days. But the main trouble was water. If we hadn't let our beards grow, we would have been dead men. That is the way we got water-just sucked the icicles we broke off our beards. I learned that trick from an Eskimo on Banks Island...
Vividly last week the crew of the Holland America liner Rotterdam, homeward bound from New York, displayed their national temperament. No disturbance broke the calm of the first nine days of the crossing except in the smoking room, where the Dutch Olympic team was en thusiastically breaking training. Rotterdam, the Dutch home port, was paralyzed by a seamen's strike. As the 21-year-old Rotterdam pushed her high prow past England's Bishop Rock, Rotterdam's strikers sent wireless messages to Rotterdam's crew. They were never delivered. Apparently acting under orders from the main...
Friendly Texans thronged the Dallas railroad station last week to greet their own John Nance ("Jack") Garner, homeward bound from Washington. The Democratic vice-presidential nominee bustled out of his through Pullman long enough to give them a first taste of his campaign oratory. Above locomotive whistles, escaping steam and lusty cheers he shouted...